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Back in time: Street Fighter Alpha 3, Valle vs. Daigo

Posted — March 19, 2011 at 9:46 a.m. PDT

Alex Valle and Daigo Umehara, two of the most well known players in our community, have played in countless head to head matches. Back in 1998, they competed in a Street Fighter Alpha 3 tournament, and lucky for us, the video is up on YouTube, posted by Guoguodi.

This was part of a television program that was aired, which covers an official Capcom Street Fighter Alpha 3 tournament in Japan that attracted more than 10,000 players. Daigo ended up coming to San Francisco, California, to compete. Footage from the earlier part of the event is also available, which you can see by clicking the link below, although it's all in Japanese.

• Part 3 — SFA3 Tournament
• Part 2 — SFA3 Tournament
• Part 1 — SFA3 Tournament

Comments

Struggs said on March 19, 2011 at 9:55 a.m.

You know this is old cause Valle is rocking the wifebeater. Still a great match and even though I know the result... I still root for Valle to win it. Daigo's adjustments on the fly are something else.

Gorehound said on March 19, 2011 at 10:11 a.m.

That was the first time I've heard of Daigo was when I heard of the results of the tourney.

Grim said on March 19, 2011 at 10:12 a.m.

Wish we were getting Alpha 3 online, I used to really love that game.

raymizzie said on March 19, 2011 at 10:14 a.m.

was that nuki playing sodom against daigo? they really should bring this out as dlc for psn and xbl

bananainsaneface said on March 19, 2011 at 10:26 a.m.

Rumor has it Daigo switched from Akuma to Ryu after being impressed with Valle's Ryu.

Jerry said on March 19, 2011 at 10:27 a.m.

This game really needs to hurry up and hit PSN/XBL, though I'm more sure that it'll be on PSN as a PS1 Classic more than anything.

bananainsaneface said on March 19, 2011 at 10:31 a.m.

BTW There's more matches from this event of Daigo using Gen and some other characters including this infamous match with Jason Cole:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_r7P8...

MetalxHealthx said on March 19, 2011 at 10:39 a.m.

damn how old was Valle there? dude looks like he just got out of class lol

akatruthteller said on March 19, 2011 at 10:52 a.m.

guys. what is said is that daigo's hometown is Tohogu, which is basically a farmland where a lot of older people live. unfortunately, it is very close to where the nuclear accidents happen. so daigo can not return to his hometown to visit probably for a long time.... see the vids below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ToPwm...

it is a video done back in seasons beasting where daigo discussed about tohogu dialect...

i think we should all support the beast in this hard time in japan....

Mr_Bogard said on March 19, 2011 at 10:53 a.m.

Wow...pretty cool stuff. Nice seeing old school tourney footage.

#10

JanTheMan said on March 19, 2011 at 11:17 a.m.

Good old Alpha 3

#11

MALDA said on March 19, 2011 at 11:25 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#12

RandomDP said on March 19, 2011 at 11:40 a.m.

Anyone else think Valle should sport the wife beater again at tournies? That'd be awesome!

#13

MALDA said on March 19, 2011 at 11:58 a.m.

(This user was banned.)

#14

NobleEskimo said on March 19, 2011 at 12:25 p.m.

I thought Alex was winning the whole time, considering they had their names swapped on the prompter :)

#15

SpicyBurrito said on March 19, 2011 at 12:48 p.m.

Valle had me laughing. He was trying too hard lol. He was really good though.

#16

Ambient said on March 19, 2011 at 12:50 p.m.

Oldschool fighting: before things got salty and everyone is "OP". Ni excuses, just straight up battles.

#17

Ex_Ein said on March 19, 2011 at 1:05 p.m.

Wow a nerd girl

#18

cvs said on March 19, 2011 at 1:11 p.m.

SFA3 is cheapy D's.

#19

Grimmjow316 said on March 19, 2011 at 1:26 p.m.

I remember reading that Valle was salty because he fought they still had another set but they misinformed him. Can anyone verify this, A3 my favorite game out of the sf series how I miss you.

@9 Is that the same location that they just reported they found radiation on the farmland?

#20

Ex_Ein said on March 19, 2011 at 1:27 p.m.

Sorry but OP existed (why do you think Akuma was tourney soft banned?), Salt did exist but back then they use to channel that Salt into getting better.

#21

bananainsaneface said on March 19, 2011 at 1:59 p.m.

Valle doesn't wear wife beaters anymore because I don't know if you noticed but he's gained some weight since then.

#22

Combo_Knight said on March 19, 2011 at 2:05 p.m.

Yo valle looked like he belonged on NYU.

lol

I'm sill biased though. I to this day think that Valle is the better player.

You can't tell me nothin.

#23

Suppi said on March 19, 2011 at 3:05 p.m.

wondering how many people just seen these vids today lol.

#24

Silent said on March 19, 2011 at 3:37 p.m.

theres a gif of a black dude beating an asian at an arcade tourney and he gives him the angriest look lol, does anyone know the source and possibly link me to the video?

#25

Sektah84 said on March 19, 2011 at 3:43 p.m.

Dude look like the only dork from XS new York lmao. Still this brings back memories of being in 9th grade for me. I waited for weeks for it to come out and remember it got pushed back twice on the ps1. Best street fighter hands down! Alpha 3>3rd strike. Capcom release this online instead!

#26

Mimiru said on March 19, 2011 at 3:52 p.m.

I wish alpha 3 was still alive

#27

kenshin220 said on March 19, 2011 at 4:04 p.m.

daaayum valle looks young thats nuts lol this must have been a LONG ass time ago

#28

denaycous_dee85 said on March 19, 2011 at 4:58 p.m.

cvs....idoit sfa3 tourney- dont say anything. FOOL. did i mention your a moron as well.

#29

denaycous_dee85 said on March 19, 2011 at 5 p.m.

sfa3 still can come back. rookies

#30

sNsKid said on March 19, 2011 at 6 p.m.

Valle got a wake up call at the end. It looked dumbfounded by Daigo. "What!? This guy beat me?" lol

#31

HawkinsT said on March 19, 2011 at 6:02 p.m.

Names/Scores are on the wrong sides... No one else bugged by this?

#32

cvs said on March 19, 2011 at 6:39 p.m.

lol Cheapy D's

#33

Stay_Free said on March 19, 2011 at 7:45 p.m.

Fun fact: Valle was screwed over in favor of Daigo in the Japan vs. US SFA3 tourney, there was supposed to be one more match after that, but the officials announced Daigo the winner. Valle was salty, but took it like a champ. And yes, Valle is 76 years old, and fat.

Also, SFA3 sucks fockin' balls. I hope that game stays forgotten. But SFA2 now...

#34

mrsbonbon said on March 19, 2011 at 8:22 p.m.

i still play alpha 2 and 3 my charlie is mean as hell

#35

DarkSamus said on March 19, 2011 at 9:49 p.m.

@24 I am on that list

#36

tokyobassist said on March 19, 2011 at 11:02 p.m.

This was so fun back in the day. I remember how wack I was with Karin and Rolento like yesterday. Taking a lot of concepts from SF4 and applying it to these old fighters really opened my eyes to how fighters are truly played. I went being jack**** to actually keeping up with everybody who grew up with SF in general. I paid my dues for being a scrub. I learned Kaioken and then reached that Super Saiyan level with Guy in SSF4.

I wanna hear some stories you guys have with this game!

#37

crispylinks77 said on March 19, 2011 at 11:03 p.m.

The only thing that didn't change about Valle these past 10+ years is the size of his nose.

#38

kara said on March 19, 2011 at 11:11 p.m.

i first tried to play SF2 in gr.3, but 1998 was really the year that got me into the game after watching this

#39

HardRojo said on March 19, 2011 at 11:47 p.m.

@38 I find your comment funny because it's so random.

#40

NEWkidCJ said on March 20, 2011 at 12:10 a.m.

On Part 1 @3:25 Juicebox needs to step his game up. LMAO

#41

spotlesseden said on March 20, 2011 at 12:32 a.m.

"Fun fact: Valle was screwed over in favor of Daigo in the Japan vs. US SFA3 tourney, there was supposed to be one more match after that, but the officials announced Daigo the winner. Valle was salty, but took it like a champ. And yes, Valle is 76 years old, and fat. "

wrong fact. You just made up stuffs. Go watch this vid.

before they play, the guy said "2/3 games, 3/5 rounds".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyGyGU...

#42

songman said on March 20, 2011 at 5:13 a.m.

Still have my Alpha 3 on my ps2 and i still can Rock with charile.

#43

BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 said on March 20, 2011 at 10:26 a.m.

@42

fanboy much? Valle himself said the official tournament rules would be American set:Daigo vs Valle (which happened) then Japanese set: 1st match winner (tourny runners skipped it). thats why Valle was salty. dont believe everything you see on one video.

on a side note i remember this few years ago. i always remembered this vid because it had that stupid McDonalds Ad in the end for some reason lol. i also miss A3. it was a good game but the whole A-ism V-ism (Genie-Jin much) X-ism thing really made it a different type. its like you have a possibility of creating your own character. kinda like CvS2. were waiting for you A3 online

#44

BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 said on March 20, 2011 at 10:32 a.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPzqod...

@42

heres the link read the description.

#45

bananainsaneface said on March 20, 2011 at 11:24 a.m.

@45 sounds like you're a Valle fanboy. In the video that spotless posted the dude announcing clearly says 2/3 games right before the match starts. So if Valle is saying something different then he probably misheard it. If they were running another set wouldn't the guy have announced it.

#46

JasonLee said on March 20, 2011 at 12:18 p.m.

Hilarious....

Provide video evidence proving some one wrong and they say "don't trust the video."

You people are so dumb.

#47

Raven said on March 20, 2011 at 2:46 p.m.

I don't have many stories. I'm new to SF competitive gaming via SF4, so I got a lot to learn. :)

#48

The_Barry_Gibb_Talk_Show said on March 20, 2011 at 9:20 p.m.

Valle looks funny, but Daigo looks waaaay more goofy. I laughed out very loudly when watching video 6 and I'm at work Haha!

#49

SoundwaveButcher said on March 20, 2011 at 11:58 p.m.

Its funny how NOW Alpha 3 is everyone favorite Street Fighter.

#50

BisonBetterBeGoodInSSF4 said on March 21, 2011 at 4:29 p.m.

@46

sounds like you dont have a brain. obviously if they didnt want to run the full tournament, they wouldnt announce it publicly then say they didnt. unless ignorant people like you were watching but i doubt that. and its not like i said Valle shouldve won because they didnt play the second part of the tournament. if i said that maybe you could call me a fanboy, but i guess when someone doesnt have anything logical to say he just shouts out "FANBOY"

#51

Novacane said on March 26, 2011 at 1:18 a.m.

Hahahah i remember watching this a couple years back, wasnt Valle the one using Ryu though? why are the names swapped?

Oh yeah and i remember hearing valle in a podcast talking about they had to cut the tournament short for some reason.

#52

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